Operation al-Aqsa Flood has collapsed the Middle East policy platform of the US Biden administration, in addition to pulling down the curtains and revealing the true face of the Western empire. However, it seems like the Palestinian resistance may have set in motion something else entirely, a slippery slope to the disintegration of the Zionist entity altogether. If Washington does not behave within rational bounds, it could lose its baby in West Asia.

The Zionist regime rests on a number of pillars, perhaps the most important of which is the idea of “security” for its Jewish inhabitants. The idea of a secure place for Jewish people, one which is uniquely for Jewish people and nobody else, is one of the foundational motivations for building the Zionist movement to begin with. Over the years, this is why the Zionist regime has become one of absolute militarism, there is a worship of the Israeli army and a kind of blind belief in it being “the most moral army” and one that practices the “purity of arms”. As far as the evidence goes, according to what this army has done since October 7, in Gaza, we can safely say that it is perhaps the world's most immoral army, one that functions to protect an Apartheid settler regime, however, we have to stick to the Israeli narrative for now.

The Hamas-led attack, on October 7, collapsed this security pillar of the Zionist regime. It essentially proved that a non-state actor, who had been under one of the most intense military sieges for 17 years, could systematically dismantle the entire southern sector of the Israeli army’s defenses. For the United States, which has spent billions on arming and promoting the image of strength, always arguing the side of “Israel’s” “right to defend itself”, it has come as a major embarrassment that the Zionist regime had proven incapable of preventing such an attack. For the normalizing Arab regimes, Operation al-Aqsa Flood came as a wake-up call, it is not only its project in Afghanistan that Washington failed to protect, the image of its most valued asset was torn to shreds within the space of five hours.

However, for the Israelis, the attack struck a much deeper cord, proving something that they have not yet been capable of reconciling, they will never be secure as occupiers and oppressors. The Israeli media and its public are attempting to justify the blow in three ways: The first is through the concoction of a victim narrative, within which they tell themselves that they were struck by an event that can be compared to the September 11 attacks of 2001, or perhaps the barbarism of Daesh. This leads to the second justification, that the Israeli army is now working to secure an overwhelming victory, in which they will crush Hamas and completely dismantle all Palestinian resistance in Gaza and restore their “deterrence capacity”. The third way they are justifying what happened is by playing a blame game and pointing fingers at whoever is on the opposite end of the political aisle. 

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The above-mentioned ways for the Israelis to explain away what happened, are all rooted in mythology and fantasy. In reality, the Israeli military, intelligence, and political establishment were responsible for what happened on October 7. They were the ones who failed to prevent it, they failed to see it coming, they failed to defend their settlements, and even opened fire on their own people. It was the Apartheid regime that caged 2.3 million people into the concentration camp called Gaza, then only provided the answer of periodically bombing the besieged coastal enclave indiscriminately every few years. It is the regime, which told its settlers that it would crush Hamas and stop the rocket fire during every major attack on Gaza, that failed to do so and lied about who it killed, what it targeted, and how badly it actually damaged the military capabilities of the Palestinian resistance. Every step of the way, Washington endorsed the Zionist regime's actions and decision-making. When the resistance launched its offensive operation, it did so after threatening the Israelis with a retaliation for their crimes for years, yet they ignored every clear indication that their lack of a strategy was going to blow up in their faces.

It is unlikely that the Israeli public will properly come to terms with the reality of the situation they are faced with, at least any time soon, but perhaps the US government will. Washington, London, and Brussels, all joined hands with the Israelis to endorse their genocidal war against the civilian population of Gaza, endorsing every lie that was presented to paint the Zionist regime as a victim of a “terrorist attack” that they “have the right to defend themselves” against. Yet, it has become abundantly clear that the Israeli regime is now seeking pure vengeance against the civilian population of Gaza, failing to inflict any significant blow against the Palestinian resistance.

We hear contradictory statements coming out of the mouths of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his security Minister, Yoav Gallant, every other day. The public was told that the headquarters of Hamas was located at the Al-Shifa Hospital and that the US agreed with Israeli intelligence reports about a similar presence at the hospital compound. After committing civilian massacres there and entering the site, even the Israeli propaganda couldn’t convince the world of any real Hamas presence, let alone a command and control center. Now we are informed that the real base for Hamas is located in Khan Younis, in Gaza’s south, which begs the question as to why the Zionist entity was focusing so heavily on the northern sector of Gaza. Even as the Israeli regime continues to tell Gazans to head south, they routinely murder them on the way at random, then proceed to commit massacres in the south. Either the Zionist regime cannot control its soldiers and their lust for dropping bombs on civilian targets in Gaza, or they are purposely self-sabotaging their alleged plan because the people who inhabit the north of the besieged territory don’t even see the point in following the orders of the Zionists because they know that they’ll be killed anywhere and that no zones are safe.

The Israelis then stepped forward, under US pressure, to accept a temporary four-day truce and prisoner exchange with Hamas, through Qatari-Egyptian mediators. This was the first time that an effort participated in by the Israelis, would have achieved any objective they set forth since the start of the war; releasing their prisoners in this case. Hamas is still there and is still striking major blows against the Israeli military around the clock. However, we will soon be coming towards a point of no return in the current war, one that the US has the ability to stop.

The prospect of regional conflict is no longer a possibility, it is currently a reality. Regional resistance groups, from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, are all conducting qualitative operations against Israeli and US targets. Part of this strategy is to pressure US President, Joe Biden, to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, while also supporting the Palestinian resistance substantively during their fight against the occupier. In reality, a full-scale regional conflict will be to the greatest detriment of the United States government and will inevitably spell the annihilation of the Israeli regime militarily. If the current Zionist leadership, who are scrambling to save their political careers through extracting any possible semblance of victory, are permitted to continue, there can be no doubt that the war will change dramatically to combat whatever this leadership attempts. 

If the Israeli government is hellbent on ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip completely, this will not only drag in the regional resistance, but it could also collapse Jordan’s relations with "Tel Aviv", while putting Egypt in a position where it also must act. This is most emphatically a disaster for American policymakers, undoing decades of political maneuvering and statecraft. In order to avoid the war escalating in such a manner, the US Biden administration must act with haste and begin presenting political, humanitarian, and security conclusions to be entailed in a comprehensive ceasefire agreement. If this does not happen, then the Zionist entity is over. In order to save its baby [“Israel”], the US has to accept that it has been defeated and that the days of Benjamin Netanyahu are finished. It will have to facilitate the fall of Netanyahu and the ushering in of a new administration while ensuring that significant concessions are handed to the Palestinian people. The war has already been won by Hamas, the quicker the imperialist nations accept this, the fewer lives will be lost.